Package: gdm
Version: 2.16.1-1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software

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In a fresh install of unstable, $DISPLAY is not being set. Thus, many X applications are unable to run without specifying "-display :0" on the command-line.


Thanks.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser                    3.99          Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.9 Debian configuration management sy ii gdm-themes 0.5 Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii  gksu                       2.0.0-1       graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session              2.14.3-3      The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal 2.14.2-1 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.12.3-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libattr1 2.4.32-1 Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6                      2.3.6.ds1-8   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.2.4-4 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdmx1 1:1.0.2-2 X11 Distributed Multihead extensio ii libfontconfig1 2.4.1-2 generic font configuration library ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.0-2 library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.12.4-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.14.0-2 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.20-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libpam-modules 0.79-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam-runtime 0.79-4 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 0.79-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpango1.0-0 1.14.7-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii librsvg2-2 2.14.4-2 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii librsvg2-common 2.14.4-2 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1                1.32-3        SELinux shared libraries
ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-11 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.0.3-3     X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                    1:1.0.1-2     X11 authorisation library
ii  libxcursor1                1.1.7-4       X cursor management library
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.1-4 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                     1:1.0.1-3     X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1               1:1.0.1-4.1   X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                    2.6.27.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2                 2:1.1.0.2-4   X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra ii lsb-base 3.1-22 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii metacity [x-window-manager 1:2.14.5-2 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  multi-gnome-terminal [x-te 1.6.2-12      Enhanced the GNOME Terminal
ii  twm [x-window-manager]     1:1.0.1-4     Tab window manager
ii  xbase-clients              1:7.1.ds-3    miscellaneous X clients
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator 222-1         X terminal emulator

Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii whiptail 0.52.2-8 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe ii zenity 2.14.3-1 Display graphical dialog boxes fro

-- debconf information:
  gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm

--
Jeff Beaird
Digital Access and Information Architecture Department
University Libraries of Notre Dame


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